co_assault

WorthyRival

Hello all and welcome to co_assault.

First I want to give a big thank you to everyone who has helped me with this map. You know who you are :)

Map is now on the Steam Workshop.
Last map update: 19.01.2013
Screen shots:
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Good hunting.

Update 12.01.2013
Map has been re built from scratch.
Let me know of any bugs you find.
I hope you enjoy.

rantology

For being so simple it looks really great! Looking forward to testing it out :)

WorthyRival

Thanks Rantology.

Any feedback about it is welcome.
I hope you enjoy it.

Angelusz

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Vents! Aliens love vents. :)

WorthyRival

Update: 18.07.2012
Occlusion Geometry.
Vents.

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Electr0

Not bad at all, in fact i would like to see a lot more simple maps like this, especially for combat, as long as they're designed well and look good enough we'll get a lot more variety if the community starts pumping these out, remember it's not long until the game is released and we really only have a handful of maps to play on.

WorthyRival

<u>Update 20.7.2012</u>
Occlusion Geometry working correctly.
Performance increase.
Reworked some textures.
Deleted a whole lot of excess geometry.
Lowered walls so marines can jump over them.
Fixed fades getting stuck in vents

WorthyRival

<u>Update 21.07.2012</u>
Added 2 tech points for classic
Added locations all areas
Added some cinematics

zombiehellmonkey

Looking good!

WorthyRival

<u>Update 21.07.2012</u>
Added commanderinvisible for classic
Cleaned up some more geometry
Aligned textures
Opened up crawl space beneath reactor

Latest Pictures
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WorthyRival

<u>Update 23.07.2012</u> Original Posts Download link updated.

Random and spectate added to ready room
Edited props that didn't need to cast shadows.
Performance increase.

WorthyRival

Known Bugs/Issues. as of 23.07.2012

Players sinking into the floor and getting stuck if they stop running in corners of 2 areas of the map.
Gorge can't belly slide in vents.
Spawning on top of walls.
Reactor floor grates are bit low for marines animation. (heads passing through grates)
Mines triggering from other side of the floor grating (More a coding issue but will make note of it here)

Big thanks to Endar and all the guys helping me stress test this last night and your feedback. 12 players almost got the server full hehehe.

Codeine

Ive been stuck in the ground a few times by crouching in places. I've aslo got stuck in the ground/wall 3 times in a row when spawning as a skulk.

WorthyRival

I'll try to have most of the current bugs fixed in the next day or 2.

WorthyRival

<u>Map update 04.08.2012</u>

Complete texture rework.
Ready Room textured and cinematics added * thanks <b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Sphinxter.<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Enlarged Vents for gorge sliding and fade shadowstep.
More Occulsion Geo added * Performance increase.
Reactor floor lowered and cinematics added * still a wip.
added some mood lighting.
Reduced Ambient lighting * Darker feel.
A whole bunch of other things I now can't remember.

WorthyRival

New Pictures
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Arkanti

Good work keeping this updated, hopefully combat will be fixed for 215 soon. Though I'm not sure we'll be able to get Monash 3 to switch over with how full they are lately.

WorthyRival

Thanks Arkanti.

I think they fixed combat yesterday.

Full servers can only be a good thing. Hopefully more servers follow :D

Soul_Rider

Combat is fixed and I updated the server yesterday to the latest version 1.1

Map looks great :)

WorthyRival

Thanks Soul Rider.

I'm just sitting on my hands at the moment with this map and haven't changed much, mostly cosmetic changes.
I hope to get another play test soon but with the influx of new players, combat servers are coming up short. I will just have to be patient.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated good or bad. What ever it is let me know and I will do my best to fix it.

In the mean time i'm going to start another map.

Soul_Rider

Would you like to make one for Proving Grounds? We also need small combat like maps :)

Currently we only have pg_lunacy (and that is a fantastic map to have admittedly, I love it!!!), and could always do with more :)

If you do decide to map for PG, you will need to download the mod and create a mod in launchpad pointing to a copy of the download files, otherwise you won't be able to add PGGamerules to the map, instead of NS2gamerules :)

WorthyRival

I'll take a look at it Soul_Rider.

I'm off house sitting for the next week so I won't be able to do much till I'm back.

Were you wanting this map ? or a new one ?

Soul_Rider

Would you like to port the same map? or would you like to do things a bit differently? or would you like to start from scratch? The decision is yours :)

I need maps, however they flow from the mappers is fine with me!!

WorthyRival

Porting it should be easy enough.

I will keep your mod in mind for the next map I do.

WorthyRival

Map is now published on the steam workshop.

Soul_Rider

Hi WorthyRival.

First off this is a beautiful looking map :)

I was just doing some testing to see if it would be compatible with Proving Grounds, but I came across issues with LOS. 1536units is approx the max size before you get object pop-out, but it seems that there are many lines of sight further than this in your map. Here is the hive room for example...

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This is a problem I am seeing all the time currently in maps. The line of sight needs to be below 1500 units absolute maximum, at all times, to avoid this unnatural scene. Forgive me just shooting and moving back and forth. This issue occurs in the circles you have, and most of the connections between them.

WorthyRival

Thanks Soul Rider.
I appreciate you have taken the time to checkout the map as I'm quite fond of it.

I am aware of the Line of sight issue. It's happening in offical maps too like docking at trams tech point.

I learnt much making this map. While not my first map. I still made lots of planning mistakes like the LOS issuses. I've been hoping with engine improvements and optimisation in the coming months issues like this might fix themselves. So for the time being i'm currently I'm working on co_chuteout. I may come back to this map again but it's likely I'll have to just rebuild it from scratch to fix issues like LOS. Unless they make changes to the engine which may yet happen.

Soul_Rider

I don't see there being much change to the LOS distance, as they will need all the savings they can muster just to improve performance, not give it away again in expensive extra rendering.

As I said, I am seeing it in almost every map made at the moment, and it is driving me crazy :)

I also looked at co-chuteout, the LOS is fine, but unfortunately the map is not suitable for pg :( Neither Exo's nor Aliens can use the ladder...

WorthyRival

You should take another look at co_chuteout as the chute is a secondary route.
The Primary route is the staircase that wraps around the whole level which was designed with onos and exos in mind.

Also it would be easy enough to block the chute for PG.

Soul_Rider

I did play in the whole map :) It is just there is only 1 route for the Exo and Aliens to go to fight each other, no chance to sneak around the back so to speak. It is always head on into each other :P

WorthyRival

Map updated 12.01.2013

Map has been completely re built from scratch.

Map is in the Steam Workshop.... Don't forget to vote
Let know of any bugs if you find them.
I hope you guys enjoy it.